Kenneth Walters to focus on sales program strategy for diversifying ServSafe portfolio, leveraging partner products, and expanding restaurant chain programs for the National Restaurant Association.

The National Restaurant Association named Kenneth Walters vice president of sales for strategic accounts. In his new role, Walters is responsible for creating the strategic direction and executing a sales program for non-traditional channels, including grocery stores, convenience and drug stores, and hotel and lodging.

Walters brings more than 25 years of sales and management experience to the Association team, including extensive expertise in food safety to support the organization's ServSafe Food Safety product portfolio.

Previously, Walters was client services manager/food safety with Prometric, where he led the food safety program by developing strategic business relationships and client solutions. In this role, he also assisted in developing and implementing Conference for Food Protection (CFP) standards for accreditation, including all aspects of ANSI surveillance audit compliance. Prior to that, he held key positions at Office Max, Galyans Sports & Outdoors and Sportmart.